Civil War Wives
The Lives & Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis & Julia Dent Grant

Three Women Of The Civil War Note. This review was written in 2010 and posted here on Goodreads on election day, 2016, at the end of a tumultuous and divisive campaign. In recent years, Americans have combined their long passion for Civil War history with an interest in women's studies. Carol Berkin's......more

Loved it! A gift from Darin and the girls that I probably never would have picked for myself. But gave me all I didn’t know I was looking for that more intimate connection to Grant. And I certainly wasn’t aware I’d enjoy reading that glance into Jefferson Davis’ life! But enjoy it I did! I was pretty......more

I did like this book. It was given to me by my mom who read it in a book club. I think I would have liked it much better if I had a group to discuss it with afterwards. My biggest problem with the book was that the author wrote it as if only students of the Civil War would read it, and people and o......more

Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant by Carol Berkin leaves me in awe of biographers of the historical persuasion. I read in the author's note at the end of the book that it took Berkin only three years to write this 315 page book. S......more

I found the section on Angelina Grimke Weld a bit dry. I enjoyed the sections on Varina Howell Davis since I didn't know anything about her or Jefferson and had never read a non-fiction book dealing with the South during the Civil War. Even though Julia Dent Grant was characterized as shallow, I adm......more